First look: Palace are collaborating with CP Firm

Arriving earlier than the 12 months is out, a brand new collaboration sees irreverent skate model Palace unite with cult Italian sportswear label CP Firm on a limited-edition assortment which represents a coming collectively of two streetwear juggernauts. 

Revealed at present and obtainable from 16 December 2022, the limited-edition assortment started with Palace mining CP Firm’s huge archive – a lot of which centres round its distinctive historical past of garment-dye innovation beneath founder Massimo Osti who opened the model in 1971 – for inspiration. 

Palace x CP Firm

‘The Osti household mainly invented every thing I prefer to put on,’ says Lev Tanju, the founding father of Palace. ‘Working with CP Firm is a giant deal for me personally. I have been an enormous lifelong fan of what [it] has achieved for not simply my wardrobe however menswear and sportswear usually. They’re the innovators that modified every thing.’

The varied items embody a riff on CP Firm’s ‘Montgomery’ duffle (its striped design initially impressed by military blankets), a ‘Palace CP Firm’-emblazoned lambswool sweater, and a technical utility shirt, as properly a balaclava with in-set goggles (a staple CP Firm design). Modern garment-dyed materials are utilised all through.

‘I’ve been in love with Palace since I found the model years in the past: I like its perspective, irreverent however humble, ironic however with rather a lot to say,’ provides Lorenzo Osti, CP Firm president. ‘Once I met Gareth [Skewis, Palace co-founder] and Lev, I had the affirmation that nice manufacturers come from nice individuals. Working with them has been straightforward and enjoyable, however greater than every thing a fantastic honour.’